Stefano Solinas

About Me

Coming from a small town in Sardinia where you can either stare at trees or chase cats, and considering the latter made him fall on a wooden pole and almost die when he was 8. At the age of 18, Stefano Solinas moved to Pisa to check that the leaning tower was still standing up. This is where he met an Indian shaman that gave him the name obsidian (transformed to obsidianart for SEO).

After 10 years in Pisa working as a developer, designer, video editor and trainer, Stefano felt the call of a bigger city and took a plane to London. He's currently a JavaScript developer, spare time designer, and forum fairy when in a good mood. Google him for more... (This CV has a 3 page hard limit, check Linkedin if you want more history)

Companies

Senior JS

Hired to implement graphQL on both the server and React Native and bring a static app to life. My main job was to interface the graphQL resolvers with all the other REST services and to interface the app with the new data format. The job also required a good understanding of the Ethereum blockchain.

Team leader and Senior JS dev

Hired as part of the Beamly restructuring process after Coty acquisition, I lead the first "delivery team" in the company. My main focus is to ensure that the websites they agreed to deliver are high quality, automated tested and delivered in time while taking care that everyone in the team is happy and works at their best.

Fullstack developer / Angular / React / Express / SASS

As JS team, we manage all the projects with an interface around the Yoti platform: main website and blog, users and customers administration website , internal administration and monitor, clients' demos and libraries for external developers. We also write most of the unit and e2e tests, continuos integration scripts, deployment scripts, etc. ES6 Node.js, Mongoose, Passport, MongoDB, PostgreSQL - Angular, React.js - Selenium, Protractor, Mocha, Chai I also took most of the photos on website and newsletters :)

Angular.js developer (CoffeeScript)

My key responsibilities were to write and maintain the frontend application. The company works using BDD/TDD (strictly), code reviews and an Agile workflow (SCRUM). The app is developed in CoffeeScript, SASS and HTML5.

Head of User Interface / Angular.js Dev

I joined local world as Head of UI in January. My key responsibilities were to hire a new team and organize the workflow for the London office while developing a new internal publishing platform based on Angular.js. I was also responsible for implementing TDD and an Agile workflow. Local World decided in June to outsource the development, my duty was to facilitate the transition.

Backbone.js Developer / Frontend developer

Working as a Backbone.js expert for Hotshot Trader (HST). HST is a new game, released in October 2012 for Facebook and mid-2013 on a standalone website. HST allow players to demonstrate their abilities on the Stock market playing tournaments with virtual money. To get a sneak peek of this project check the conference about i18n at the bottom.